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The reasons I got an AMD GPU for my gaming machine:
That’s it. That’s the list.
Neither Nvidia nor AMD (nor also-ran Intel) have come out with meaningfully novel hardware approaches in a long fucking time. It’s all horizontal scaling on the die (plus “let’s add more memory”) combined with incremental efficiency improvements in die layouts and chip lithography process / feature size.
This is why monopolies are bad. They have a vested interest in acquiring and/or killing any company - indeed, any innovation - that has even a slight potential to disrupt their market dominance.
This isn't really possible anymore (at least unaided by LLM). In the era of fixed function pipelines, it was possible to do something new under the hood.
The current standards of Vulkan and DirectX have exposed a lot of inner workings to extract performance which makes it hard to make a large shift. While this makes it easy to use the HW, it also makes it hard for the devs to have a single algorithm for diff HWs, ie, each new feature will need in investment by them.
For any novel functionality, devs will not like to work on features only on a small set of HW, unless they are aided by HW vendors. This creates a chicken egg situation: new features don't get prioritized up by devs which makes it hard to market the features which makes it a small market which makes it likely not to be a priority by devs.
In this era where code is cheap, perhaps we'll see more fast moving devs and HW both
Your info is out of date. Nvidia drivers on Linux are trivial to install these days. They provide a deb repo (and others) with both the proprietary and open source drivers. Add, install, done.
"Done", until the complexity of being an out of tree kernel driver causes yet another issue... suspend has been broken for months on 615+ series
It has? My laptop and desktop haven't had any problems with it. They've been suspending and resuming just fine.
I did have one problem where on my desktop, the latest version caused everything to go really slowly, but downgrading fixed it. But that's part of using the latest drivers, instead of a stable version. You can get the same problems using the latest version of any in-tree driver, or the kernel itself.
Nonetheless, having fixable problems are still problems that will be a hard barrier for prospective users to adopt.
I found the experience bad when i tried bazzite on a spare drive to test it out on my nvidia desktop. NVIDIA legacy gpus that stopped getting updates and included in distros also a pain when it came to laptops for me with bugs coming out of sleep.
Meanwhile AMD and Intel laptops been trouble free throughout the years, so I've avoided getting NVIDIA GPU laptops.